The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Living in a Borderland
Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey
& Aditya Kumar f)ewan
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 Contents

Acknowledgements ..... ......vii

I Introduction ...................1
2 Photographic Obsessions ...................9
3 Mapping a Region ........21
4 CreatingaColonialAristocracy .........25
5 Howto Be aRaja ..........35
6 ThePublicDisplayofPo\,ver........... .....................45
7 The Colonial Overlords ................... .....................55
8 PakistanandtheChiefs .....................71
9 ImocenceandChann ......................81
l0 Bodies and Cosflrrnes ............... ......99
ll ImagesofNatureandDestmction............. ........121
12 Religions of the Hills ... ...149
13 Spreadingthe Gospel ....167
14 AHospitalatChandraghona........... ...................181
15 Developingthe Hills ....191
16 GettingAround .............. ...................219
l7 TlreïuiIlofFreedom .....................237

21 Conclusion:Wrat Counts As History'? ................ ..................297

23 Glossary .. ...309

25 References ........... 317